[Tubular Furniture] Thonet. Trade-catalogue for tubular steel furniture

Frankenberg/ Eder, Gebr. Thonet, 1930. Portfolio w. 53 loosely inserted cards, all w. photographs of tubular steel furniture, mostly designs by Marcel Breuer, but also by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, Emile Guyot and Béwé (Bruno Weil), in the orig. portfolio des. by Kurt Schmidt.

A good copy, with a large number of cards. The first issue of this catalogue; a later issue has the word “Stahlrohr Möbel” on the front. Copies are known with greatly varying numbers of cards, probably because sellers could assemble their own sets with the cards of the furniture they sold. The catalogue features many examples of furniture designs that are now iconic, such as the Thonet B 3 by Breuer, the B 306 by Le Corbusier, Jeanneret and Perriand and designs by Béwé, Guyot and Lurçat.